DIIV share ominous single ‘The Fountain’ as they officially announce new album ‘ZIRP!’ and announce tour dates

DIIV have shared their new single ‘The Fountain’ as they officially announce their new A.G. Cook-produced album ‘ZIRP!’, along with 2026 tour dates. READ MORE: DIIV tackle their existential crisis: “This album just feels so hard fought” The shoegaze quartet have unveiled more details of their album ‘ZIRP!’, which is due on October 30 via Fantasy Recordings. Pre-save/pre-order the album here. Inspired by “Palantir, societal breakdown and streaming’s endless hamster wheel”, the album was produced by A.G Cook (Charli XCX, Caroline Polachek). Cook said he departed from the original brief of “destroying & rebuilding their demos, Screamadelica-style, into a finished product, but that hybrid, half-remix approach felt completely wrong to me.” Instead, Cook said he became “obsessed with their live sound”, and explained that he “insisted on recording live drums before most of the songs were even finished. We spent a lot of time recording intricate guitar parts with specific guitar pedals, and as little time as possible doing anything on a computer, at least by my standards. “After a few rounds of that, ZIRP! emerged as a concept, and a sort of utopian, dystopian mantra. For me it became ...